Ask HN: What are your peronsal data backup and sync setups?

Yeah great question. With family members including not living with you. It's virtually impossible to backup from iPad/Phones to android phones and tablets and multitudes of PC's Linux to iOS to Wintel.

Eagerly awaiting answers from you all but for now...

  1. rsync from where I can.
  2. manually copy whenever I get the device in hand.
  3. backup cronjobs from omv server
  4. my main desktop use Timeshift
  5. LocalSend

Also trying to use Immich once I can get a stabilized build. Had to rescrape entire pic/vid family lib of 3TB multiple times.

Also cronjobs to attached USB and NAS to have backups of backups of backups.

No one seems to realize every household is a micro enterprise!

Then make matter worse, with all the tightening of security. It's harder and harder to remote into and recv/xfer files l.

Main machines are zfs, with sanoid to take snapshots and syncoid to transfer snapshots among them.

Windows machines backup nightly with Veeam personal (free) license to one of the servers. I didn't have luck with open source windows backup.

I am the OP and I see the post didn't see much traction. Anyway here is my setup:

- All my personal data: Borg (gui: vorta), Restic (gui: Backrest)

- Very important personal data (small subset of all data): Tarsnap (gui: tarsnap-gui)

Sync:

- Personal regular use data data: Dropbox (some private/personal data that I want to be extra careful about gets synced in a Cryptomator folder and in a KeePass file), iCloud (not a lot of files)

- Photo/video: iCloud, Ente

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I am also trying to setup e2ee backup/sync on my Koofr a/c with rclone (WIP) for almost all my data - more than "personal" data (but not the system files of course)! Koofr a/c is the lifetime subscription and even they they have a great track record I do not really consider it "lifetime". I also hope they expand Vault (i.e not limited to just only "one" folder)

I have a "stuff" git repo where each machine has a branch. Anything I create that should persist more than a day or two but doesn't have another home gets committed to that and pushed to a VPS.

I've been experimenting with different systems for archiving binary files like images but so far there's nothing I've stuck with. I just don't keep that many of them so the few that I do go in ~/stuff and just consume twice the disk space they should.

One nice thing is that I have bash keep its history there with datestamps and hostnames. So c-r works on all my machines (I typically merge every time I switch between computers) which is super cool.

Used to be restic[1], but I switched to kopia[2]. For Android I just sync /storage/emulated/0/ with syncthing. All devices are backed up to a home server. Home server backups go to Backblaze (but any S3-compatible storage would do).

1. https://restic.net/ 2. https://kopia.io/

For important files I have my own bewCloud instance (Nextcloud alternative I've created) which syncs directories via rclone. For system backups I have physical SSDs that I connect via USB (using Déjà Dup for Linux, Time Machine for macOS). Every month I'll also do a separate encrypted backup of my home directory to Backblaze. For my GrapheneOS phone, I don't care (it's barely got anything). For my iPhone, iCloud.

Simple:

iCloud + Google Drive + OneDrive

Photos and videos are automatically synced to all three. My few important documents are copied between all three manually via the Files app on iOS.

I used BackBlaze in the past when I had a large media library of videos that fell off the back of a truck. But once I took down my Plex server , I copied all of my media to my personal AWS account to S3 Glacier Deep Archive. It’s less than $2 a month for 2 TB.

Every week or so, I plug in an external SSD and put a tarball on it of the directory hierarchy in which I keep my most valuable data. If the tarball is significantly larger than previous one, I use du to try to find what caused the increase and move it out of the hierarchy.

For me, it's easier when I have everything done automatically. Thus, I prefer using backup tools to set up a backup copy to be run automatically. For that I use GitProtect

I sync my devices to my Synology NAS at home, and then the NAS syncs them to Backblaze B2.

I have some extra workflows to back up some other data, like some WebDAV shares, based on rsync.

tar | zstd | gpg > USB

https://gitlab.com/sdwolfz/dotfiles

    ```sh
    make backup
    ```

I've succesfully used `make restore` twice so far.

Sync between phone and laptop is set up with Syncthing.

rsync and btrfs snaphots internally, and restic for important backups synced to external storage. Cron for scheduling. Trading bits of NAS space with friends for geographic redundancy without needing to pay backblaze/etc.

The Backblaze cloud and restic.

I just use Backblaze these days, now that I'm out of being a sysadmin.

Backblaze and a Windows network share of the backed up folder.

syncthing from desktop and mobile to homelab. rsync from homelab to raspberry pi with a direct attached storage device at my parents.

Syncthing plus Duplicati2.